Vincenzo Agnetti was born in Milan in 1926. In 1948 he graduated from the Accademia de’ Filodrammatici in Milan and for a short time worked with Giorgio Strehler as a young actor at the Piccolo Teatro. By the late 1950s he had developed friendships with Enrico Castellani and Piero Manzoni. In 1959 he published his first propositional writings in the magazine Azimuth. In 1962 he moved to Argentina, where he worked in the field of electronic automation. Returning to Italy in 1967, he resumed his critical research in art and began producing artworks at a frenetic pace, always accompanied by precise reflections on the structure and genesis of his works. In 1968 he published the novel Obsoleto and a self-published edition of Tesi. The succession of exhibitions and appearances in international shows led him to experiment with different aesthetic forms, always guided by the rigor and conceptual coherence that marked his artistic identity. From 1973 he also maintained a studio in New York. In 1981 he died suddenly in Milan, leaving behind an unfinished work and a few verses that ended as follows:
Before the brief evening / we shall return to arms / We shall be in Earth in Sun in Air. / Then with the player of flowers. Perhaps.
